List of people from Maharashtra

This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India

Art

 * Mangesh Tendulkar
 * Pramod Kamble
 * S. D. Phadnis

Actors



 * Ajinkya Dev
 * Amol Palekar
 * Ankush Chaudhari
 * Ashok Saraf
 * Atul Kulkarni
 * Bharat Jadhav
 * Chandrakant Mandare
 * Dada Kondke
 * Dilip Prabhavalkar
 * Kashinath Ghanekar
 * Kuldeep Pawar
 * Laxmikant Berde
 * Mahesh Kothare
 * Makarand Anaspure
 * Makarand Deshpande
 * Master Vinaayak
 * Milind Gunaji
 * Milind Soman
 * Mohan Gokhale
 * Nana Patekar
 * Nilu Phule
 * Nishikant Kamat
 * Prabhakar Panshikar
 * Prashant Damle
 * Riteish Vilasrao Deshmukh
 * Sharad Talwalkar
 * Sachin Khedekar
 * Sachin Pilgaonkar
 * Sadashiv Amrapurkar
 * Sandeep Kulkarni
 * Sanjay Narvekar
 * Sayaji Shinde
 * Shahu Modak
 * Shivaji Satham
 * Shreyas Talpade
 * Siddharth Jadhav
 * Sudhir Joshi
 * Subodh Bhave
 * Vikram Gokhale

Actresses

 * Alka Kubal
 * Aditi Govitrikar
 * Ashwini Bhave
 * Bhavana
 * Durga Khote
 * Genelia Deshmukh
 * Isha Koppikar
 * Jayshree Gadkar
 * Lalita Pawar
 * Leela Chitnis
 * Kavita Lad
 * Kimi Katkar
 * Madhuri Dixit
 * Mamta Kulkarni
 * Meena Kumari
 * Mugdha Godse
 * Namrata Shirodkar
 * Nishigandha Wad
 * Nivedita Joshi
 * Nutan
 * Padmini Kolhapure
 * Pallavi Joshi
 * Radhika Apte
 * Rajashree
 * Rohini Hattangadi
 * Shraddha Kapoor
 * Shilpa Shirodkar
 * Smita Patil
 * Sheetal Agashe
 * Shobhana Samarth
 * Sonali Bendre
 * Sonali Kulkarni
 * Sai Tamhankar
 * Supriya Pathak
 * Usha Chavan
 * Urmila Matondkar
 * Vandana Gupte

Directors

 * Yash Chopra
 * Karan Johar
 * Madhur Bhandarkar
 * Mahesh Manjrekar
 * Ashutosh Gowarikar
 * Amol Gupte
 * Sachin Pilgaonkar
 * Nagraj Manjule
 * Satish Rajwade
 * Ravi Jadhav
 * Rohit Shetty
 * Ram Gopal Verma
 * Ayan Mukherjee
 * Sanjay Leela Bhansali
 * Zoya Akhtar

Visual artists

 * Maria Marshall

Award winners from Maharashtra

 * Bharat Ratna
 * B. R. Ambedkar
 * Vinoba Bhave
 * Nanaji Deshmukh
 * Pandurang Vaman Kane
 * Dhondo Keshav Karve
 * Lata Mangeshkar
 * Sachin Tendulkar


 * Padma Vibhushan
 * B. G. Kher, 1954
 * Padma Bhushan
 * Homi J. Bhabha, Science & Engineering, 1954
 * Padma Shri
 * Asha Devi Aryanayakam, Public Affairs, 1954

Business and industry

 * Abasaheb Garware, Garware group
 * Azim Premji, Wipro
 * Baba Kalyani (Babasaheb Nilaknthrao Kalyani), Bharat Forge
 * Baburao Govindrao Shirke, Shirke Group of Companies
 * Baburaoji Parkhe, Parkhe group
 * Bhavarlal Jain, Jain Irrigation
 * Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave, SEBI Chairman
 * Chandrashekhar Agashe, BMSS
 * Dajikaka Gadgil, PNG Jewellers
 * Deepak Ghaisas, Iflex
 * Dilip Dandekar, Camlin
 * Ganesh Gadgil, PNG Jewellers
 * Jyoti Gogte, Golden Nugget Engineering & Electroplast
 * Kalpana Saroj, Kamani Tubes
 * Kiran Karnik, former president of NASSCOM, 2007–08
 * Panditrao Agashe, BMSS
 * Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, PNG Jewellers
 * Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Group
 * Rajendra Pawar, NIIT
 * Raosaheb Gogte, Gogte Group
 * S L Kirloskar (Shantanurao), Kirloskar group
 * Subhash Runwal, Runwal Group Chairman
 * Tarita Shankar, India Group
 * Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO
 * Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO
 * Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries

Defence forces

 * General Arun S. Vaidya
 * Namdeo Jadav
 * Yeshwant Ghadge
 * Manoj Mukund Narwane
 * Manoj Pande
 * Vivek Ram Chaudhari

Param Vir Chakra

 * Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore, Poona Horse (posthumous)
 * Major Rama Raghoba Rane Bombay Engineers
 * Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran

Journalism

 * Nanasaheb Parulekar, founder editor of Sakal

Literature

 * Vasant Purushottam Kale
 * Ranjit Desai
 * N. S. Inamdar
 * Shivaji Sawant
 * Acharya Atre
 * B. S. Mardhekar
 * G. A. Kulkarni
 * G. D. Madgulkar
 * Gangadhar Gadgil
 * Kusumagraj
 * Mangesh Padgaonkar
 * P. L. Deshpande
 * Vasant Abaji Dahake
 * Vasant Kanetkar
 * Vijay Tendulkar
 * Vilas Sarang
 * Vinda Karandikar
 * Shakuntala Karandikar
 * Baba Kadam, novelist
 * Babasaheb Purandare
 * Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
 * Shirish Kanekar
 * Suhas Shirvalkar
 * Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle
 * Sadashiv Ranade
 * Gangadhar Pathak
 * Dinkar G. Kelkar

Medicine

 * B. K. Misra, neurosurgeon

Music



 * Mandar Agashe, music director
 * Vineet Alurkar, musician
 * Aarya Ambekar, singer
 * Kishori Amonkar, singer
 * Ajay Atul, music director
 * Prabha Atre, singer
 * Swapnil Bandodkar, singer
 * Ashwini Bhide, singer
 * Shamika Bhide, singer
 * Asha Bhosle, singer
 * Vasantrao Deshpande, classical singer of Patiala Gharana
 * Bal Gandharva, theatre
 * Sawai Gandharva, singer
 * Avdhoot Gupte, singer
 * Bhimsen Joshi, classical singer
 * Suman Kalyanpur, singer
 * Kesarbai Kerkar, singer
 * Shrinivas Khale, music director
 * Shalmali Kholgade, singer
 * Mogubai Kurdikar, singer
 * Prathamesh Laghate, singer
 * Deenanath Mangeshkar, theatre
 * Lata Mangeshkar, singer
 * Usha Mangeshkar, singer
 * Ketaki Mategaonkar, singer
 * Zubin Mehta, conductor
 * Vaishali Mhade, singer
 * Anuradha Paudwal, singer
 * Ashutosh Phatak, music director
 * Rohit Raut, singer
 * Vaishali Samant, singer
 * Sadhana Sargam, singer
 * Abhijeet Sawant, singer
 * Bela Shende, singer
 * Adarsh Shinde, singer
 * Rahul Vaidya, singer
 * Mugdha Vaishampayan, singer
 * Suresh Wadkar, singer

Hip Hop

 * Divine, rapper
 * Naezy, rapper

Police

 * Vijay Salaskar
 * Ashok Kamte
 * Tukaram Omble
 * Vishwas Nangare Patil
 * Hemant Karkare

Rajya Sabha members

 * List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra

Chief ministers

 * List of chief ministers of Maharashtra

Others

 * Ajit Pawar
 * Anant Gadgil
 * Anil Shirole
 * Babasaheb Ambedkar
 * Bal Thackeray
 * Balasaheb Desai
 * Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
 * Chhagan Bhujbal
 * Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale
 * Ganpatrao Deshmukh
 * Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
 * Gopal Krishna Gokhale
 * Gopinath Munde
 * Hari Shivaram Rajguru
 * Haribhau Jawale
 * Keshavrao Jedhe
 * Manikrao Thakare
 * Manohar Joshi
 * Narayan Rane
 * Patangrao Kadam
 * Prakash Ambedkar
 * Pramod Mahajan
 * Prithviraj Chavan
 * R R Patil
 * Raj Thackeray
 * Ram Shinde
 * Ramdas Athawale
 * Rani Lakshmibai
 * Senapati Bapat
 * Shankarrao Chavan
 * Sharad Pawar
 * Shivraj Patil
 * Shrikant Jichkar
 * Shripad Amrit Dange
 * Siddharth Shirole
 * Sudhakarrao Naik
 * Sunil Deshmukh
 * Sushilkumar Shinde
 * Tatya Tope
 * Uddhav Thackeray
 * Vasantrao Naik
 * Vasantdada Patil
 * Vilasrao Deshmukh
 * Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
 * Yashwantrao Chavan

Religion

 * Babasaheb Ambedkar
 * Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
 * Saint Tukaram, Dehu
 * Saint Namdev, Pandharpur
 * Saint Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
 * Saint Eknath, Paithan
 * Sai Baba
 * Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
 * Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
 * Gora Kumbhar, Terdhoki
 * Muktabai (Kothali), Muktainagar
 * Bahinabai
 * Janabai, Pandharpur
 * Kanhopatra, Pandharpur
 * Shri BrahmaChaitanya, Gondavale
 * Swami Samartha Maharaj, Akkalkot
 * Jangali Maharaj, Pune
 * Zakir Naik, Mumbai
 * Rufus Pereira, Mumbai, Roman Catholic priest and exorcist

Rulers

 * Krishna
 * Ramachandra
 * Chhatrapati Shivaji
 * Chhatrapati Sambhaji
 * Madhavrao I
 * Ahilyabai Holkar
 * Shahu II of Kolhapur
 * Mahadaji Shinde
 * Malhar Rao Holkar
 * Yashwantrao Holkar
 * Baji Rao I
 * Khemirao Sarnaik

Scientists

 * Vijay Bhatkar
 * Anil Kakodkar
 * Madhav Gadgil
 * Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
 * Jayant Narlikar
 * Shekhar C. Mande
 * Chandreshekhar Sonwane
 * Chandrashekhar Khare
 * Narendra Karmarkar
 * Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
 * Shrinivas Kulkarni
 * Abhay Ashtekar
 * Aravind Joshi
 * Subhash Khot
 * Ashok Gadgil
 * Anandi Gopal Joshi
 * Tatyarao Lahane

Social activists

 * Baba Amte
 * Pandurang Shastri Athavale
 * Sindhutai Sapkal
 * Babasaheb Ambedkar
 * Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
 * Ashok Row Kavi
 * Dhondo Keshav Karve
 * Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
 * Kisan Mehta
 * Harish Iyer
 * Manibhai Desai
 * Anna Hazare
 * Medha Patkar
 * Savitribai Phule
 * Abhay Bang
 * Vinoba Bhave
 * Bhaurao Patil
 * Lokmanya Tilak
 * Veer Savarkar
 * Anna Bhau Sathe
 * Prakash Amte
 * Hari Narke
 * Shivrampant Damle

Badminton

 * Nandu M. Natekar
 * Aparna Popat

Chess

 * Praveen Thipsay
 * Abdul Jabbar
 * Vidit Gujrathi

Contract bridge

 * Jaggy Shivdasani
 * Orlando Campos
 * Ramesh Gokhale
 * Keshav Samant, popularly known as Anand Samant

Cricket

 * Abhishek Nayar
 * Ajinkya Rahane
 * Ajit Agarkar
 * Ashutosh Agashe
 * Baloo Gupte
 * Chandrakant Pandit
 * Chandrakant Patankar
 * Chandrasekhar Gadkari
 * Chandu Borde
 * Dattaram Hindlekar
 * Dattu Phadkar
 * Dilip Vengsarkar
 * Dnyaneshwar Agashe
 * Hemant Kanitkar
 * Hemu Adhikari
 * Hrishikesh Kanitkar
 * Kedar Jadhav
 * Khandu Rangnekar
 * Kiran More
 * Manohar Hardikar
 * Nilesh Kulkarni
 * Paras Mhambrey
 * Phiroze Palia
 * Polly Umrigar
 * Pravin Amre
 * Rahul Dravid
 * Ramnath Parkar
 * Ravi Shastri
 * Rohan Gavaskar
 * Rohit Sharma
 * Sachin Tendulkar
 * Sairaj Bahutule
 * Salil Ankola
 * Sameer Dighe
 * Sandip Patil
 * Sanjay Bangar
 * Sanjay Manjrekar
 * Shardul Thakur
 * Shreyas Iyer
 * Subhash Gupte
 * Sunil Gavaskar
 * Umesh Yadav
 * Vijay Hazare
 * Vijay Manjrekar
 * Vijay Merchant
 * Vinod Kambli
 * Vinoo Mankad
 * Wasim Jaffer
 * Zaheer Khan

Hockey

 * Dhanraj Pillay
 * Viren Rasquinha
 * Hiranna M. Nimal

Shooting

 * Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
 * Tejaswini Sawant

Other sports

 * Ashish Mane - Mountaineerng
 * Gaurav Natekar - Tennis
 * Khashaba Jadhav - Wrestling, won first Olympic individual medal for India
 * Murlikant Petkar - Swimming, India's first Paralympic Gold Medalist

Criminals and gangsters

 * Arun Gawli
 * Dawood Ibrahim, criminal and drug dealer
 * Chhota Rajan
 * Manya Surve
 * Maya Dolas
 * Tiger Memon
 * Yakub Memon